Allen agreed to talk with Eyewitness News if we didn't show his face. He is part of the growing American opioid epidemic in America that President Trump addressed Thursday.

"The opioid crisis is an emergency, I'm saying right now it is an emergency, a national emergency. We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis," President Trump said.

"We actually have two doses in here," a paramedic said.

It is so bad, overdoses are so common now, that EMTs in the city all carry a kit with the drug naloxone or narcan in it, to save the lives of people overdosing. But many of the people they're trying to save, don't want it.

"They may not be breathing adequately, and they are still able to form a sentence, and they will say please don't give me the narcan," said Cesar Escobar, a paramedic.

"This drug has caused you nothing but trouble," Dolan said.

"Nothing but trouble, and pain and heartache," Allen said. "It's not just a feeling, sometimes I just don't want to be here."

It is, Allen says, how he gets away.

Allen and his wife are set to begin treatment at a rehab facility in Upstate New York next week.